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The crisis in the Middle East poses a new challenge to multiculturalism. That new challenge is double loyalty, a loyalty to Canada and loyalty to the mother countries of Canadian immigrants, old and new. Already the Lebanese community in Canada is protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper's defence of Israel's "measured response." Harper's war in Afghanistan is intensely disliked by Canada's Muslim community. But the group most open to the charge of double loyalty is the Canadian Jewish community, which does put Israel second only to Canada in its loyalty and affection. Love of Israel is natural for the Canadian Jewish...

4 Iyar 5766 (IsraelNN.com) A Canadian federal court in Winnipeg yesterday rejected the petition of B'nai Brith and a Toronto teen to have the Canadian government recognize Jerusalem as being in Israel for the purposes of its passports. Canadian citizens born in the Israeli capital are currently issued passports listing either "Israel," without a city name, or "Jerusalem," without a country name. Shortly after the young man, Eliyahu Veffer, and B'nai Brith filed their petition, the state initiated a "recall" of Canadian passports that had been issued, in what officials called an "administrative error," listing Jerusalem as being in Israel....